ATMOS SPHAERAE

Atmos Sphaerae Tamiko Thiel

A deep time meditation on the changing elemental composition of the atmosphere of the planet Earth. Atmos Sphaerae combines mythic imagery with the poetic beauty of the „Lewis structures“ scientific notation, to make visible the atomic composition of molecules in the atmosphere over the lifetime of Planet Earth. It takes the viewer from the pre Big Bang VOID to the mythic cosmic egg, to the disc of proto-planetary gases out of which the Earth formed, to the life-giving water, to the mythic islands of Mother Earth, then to the photosynthesizing cyanobacteria that trigger the Great Oxygenation Event that created the conditions for life as we know it to arise on Earth, and finally ends in a runaway greenhouse triggered by humans‘ voracious appetite for fossil fuels.

Created by Tamiko Thiel

Original music by Christoph Reiserer

3D audio sound engineering by Martin Rieger and VR Tonung

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